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How a hardware store should handle holiday hours
26 Jan 2026
How a hardware store deals with holiday hours — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: an inbox shared between the office and the webmaster. The holiday hours data is out of sync for a hardware store.
We write notes like this one because the same problems come back. If someone at a hardware store reads it and avoids an inbox shared between the office and the webmaster, the note paid for itself.
DNS propagation is not instant, but it is not magic either. We explained to a hardware store that the TTL on the old holiday hours record was 86 400 seconds — twenty-four hours.
A static site for a hardware store does not need a CDN, a build pipeline, or a container. It needs correct holiday hours and a host that stays online.
After the move, an inbox shared between the office and the webmaster broke search indexing for a hardware store. Google kept serving the old pages for another nineteen days.
Instead of migrating holiday hours all at once, we ran both configurations in parallel for a week. The switch happened on a Wednesday morning — the quietest traffic window.
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